Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning in the Classroom

Intro Designer for iPad: Free iMovie Video Effects on iOS

iMovie has a number of built-in themes that can be customized to give you some professional looking videos with great titles, transitions and effects. However, after you have used iMovie for a little while, it becomes pretty easy to spot the same effects across multiple videos. Thankfully, apps like Intro Designer Lite exist to help make your classroom movies look that little bit more unique…for free!

The Lite version of Intro Designer has six templates to choose from – Birthday, Xmas, Just It, Shapes, End Credits and Ink. Each one can be previewed with a short 10-15 second clip before you settle on the one that you really want.

Once you select the theme you need, you can customize it with a variety of options. Text is probably where you will want to start with fonts, font size and font colors all adjustable. You can also choose the position of the text on the screen, and pick whether you want the music and/or sound effects to be included or not. You can preview your creation in full-screen at any time by tilting your iPad to landscape mode.

After you have customized everything the way you want it, tap the Export button to save it to the iPad’s Camera Roll where you can then bring it in to iMovie as part of a larger project. Videos can be exported as 640 x 360, 960 x 540 or 1280 x 720p.